Lumen (band)

Last updated

Lumen
2013-12-13. Lumen v Donetske 155.jpg
Lumen concert in Donetsk (2013)
Background information
Origin Ufa, Russia
Genres Alternative rock, alternative metal, post-grunge, nu metal, punk rock (early)
Years active1998–present
MembersRustem Bulatov
Igor Mamaev
Yevgeni Trishin
Denis Shakhanov
Past membersYevgeni Ognev
Website lumen.ws

Lumen is a Russian rock band from Ufa. It has released seven studio albums to date.

Contents

The band considers February 12, 1998 as its birthday because on that date it performed as "Lumen" for the first time. The band's earlier works have an alternative rock sound with a strong influence of punk. However, they took a heavier approach on later releases. The lyrics are usually written by singer and frontman Rustem "Tem" Bulatov. The band's songs are inspired by diverse controversial events and issues which take place inside and outside Russia, as well as personal struggles.

Biography

1996–2000

Rustem Bulatov (vocals), Igor Mamaev (guitar) and Denis Shakhanov (drums) had been jamming together with different bass players. Finally, Yevgeni Ognev was accepted as a full-time member. During this period, the band did not have a constant name and was playing cover versions of Grazhdanskaya Oborona and Kino songs, as well as writing their first original material.

2001

In 2001, Lumen had a headline performance at Navigator Club in their hometown.

2002

The major part of the year was spent in the studio working on the debut full-length record.

2003

The band released their debut album called Без консервантов ("No Preservatives Added") which contains 18 songs, including their breakthrough single "Sid & Nancy".

2004

In 2004, the band began to work with Vadim Bazeev, who today is a director and producer of the group.

2005

At the beginning of the year the band published their second live album, Одной крови (Same Blood). This album included two new songs, "Не спеши" (Don't hurry up) and "Благовещенск (02)" (Blagoveshchensk (02)). In October of that year they published their third studio album, Свобода (Freedom). The sound of the group began to be tougher, and some songs are very socially acute. The lyrics of the song "Государство (State)" are still actual – "It's kind of democracy here but it's actually an empire. I love my country so much, but I hate the State!"

2006-present

In August 2014, the band cancelled their concert in a festival in Ukraine after it found out that the proceeds of the festival would be used to support the Azov Battalion of the Ukrainian army; that at the time fought in the War in Donbass.

Conclusion

The song "Gosudarstvo" ("The State"), featuring lyrics that are very critical of the Russian political situation, became the most audience-demanded song on A-One.

Members

Past member

Albums

Studio albums

Release dateTitle
2003Без консервантов (With No Preservatives)
2004Три пути (Three Ways)
2005Свобода (Freedom)
2007Правда? (The truth? OR: Really?)
2009Мир (World OR: Peace)
2012На части (To Pieces)
2013Нет времени для любви (No time for love)
2016Свидетели хроники бешеных дней (Beholders of the crazy days' chronicle)
2020Покажите солнце (Show the sun)

Live albums

DVDs

Compilation albums

Singles

Awards

Russian Alternative Music Prize

The RAMP Awards are awarded annually by the A-One TV channel.

Fuzz Awards

The Fuzz Awards is an annual Russian awards ceremony established in 1997 by rock music magazine of Fuzz.

ZD Awards

The ZD Awards are awarded annually by the Moskovsky Komsomolets.

Related Research Articles

<i>I Should Coco</i> 1995 studio album by Supergrass

I Should Coco is the debut studio album by English alternative rock band Supergrass, released on 15 May 1995 by Parlophone. The title of the album is Cockney rhyming slang for "I should think so".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sam Bettens</span> Belgian musician

Sam Bettens is a Belgian musician and the lead singer of the Belgian band K's Choice.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Machine Gun Fellatio</span> Australian alternative rock band

Machine Gun Fellatio are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in 1997. They are well known for their provocative on-stage antics and humorous lyrics, as well as the musical merit of their songs. Their outrage-provoking name gives some idea of the attitude that pervades the band's work. They released three studio albums, three EPs and three singles before breaking up in 2005. In 2024, however, they reformed.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joey Tempest</span> Swedish singer (born 1963)

Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson, known professionally as Joey Tempest, is a Swedish singer based in the UK. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Europe. He has written most of the band's biggest hit songs, including "The Final Countdown", "Rock the Night", "Cherokee" and "Carrie".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">DDT (band)</span> Russian rock band

DDT is a Russian rock band. It was founded in 1980 by its lead singer and only remaining original member, Yuri Shevchuk, in Ufa.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Viktor Tsoi</span> Soviet musician and actor (1962–1990)

Viktor Robertovich Tsoi was a Soviet singer-songwriter and actor who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and musically influential bands in the history of Russian music.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mumiy Troll</span> Russian rock band

Mumiy Troll is a Russian rock group, founded in 1983 in Vladivostok by vocalist and songwriter Ilya Lagutenko. The name is a pun on Mumintroll, the children's books by Tove Jansson, translated into Russian as "Mummi Troll".

Kino is a Russian rock band formed in Leningrad in 1981. The band was co-founded and headed by Viktor Tsoi, who wrote the music and lyrics for almost all of the band's songs, until his death in 1990. Over the course of eight years, Kino released over 90 songs spanning over seven studio albums, as well as releasing a few compilations and live albums. The band's music was also widely circulated in the form of bootleg recordings through the underground magnitizdat distribution scene. Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident in 1990. Shortly after his death, the band broke up after releasing their final album, consisting of songs that Tsoi and the group were working on in the months before his death.

Viper is a Brazilian heavy metal band formed in 1985, initially influenced by Iron Maiden and the new wave of British heavy metal, later developing a very particular sound.

Polyushko-polye is a Soviet Russian-language song. Polye means "field" in Russian, "polyushko" is a diminutive/hypocoristic form for "polye". It is also known as Meadowlands, Song of the Plains, Cavalry of the Steppes or Oh Fields, My Fields in English.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">A-Studio</span> Russian-Kazakhstani music group

A-Studio, stylized as a'studio, is a Russian-based Kazakhstani pop music group originally consisting of Baigali Serkebayev (keyboard), Vladimir Mikloshich (bass), Baglan Sadvakasov and frontman Batyrkhan Shukenov. The band was created in 1982 in Almaty, then called Alma-Ata, hence called "Alma-Ata Studio". Later, the name was changed to "A-Studio". Currently the group's members are Georgian frontwoman Keti Topuria, Baigali Serkebayev and Vladimir Mikloshich.

<i>Gruppa krovi</i> 1988 studio album by Kino

Gruppa krovi is the sixth studio album by Soviet post-punk band Kino, first released in 1988. Released at the height of Perestroika and Glasnost, together with a crime thriller titled The Needle released in the same year starring lead vocalist Viktor Tsoi, it would go on to be the band's most popular album both inside and eventually outside the Soviet Union, with songs from the album, including the title track, commonly being listed among top 100 lists of Russian music.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diskoteka Avariya</span> Russian band

Diskoteka "Avaria" are a Russian band from Ivanovo, Russia. The duo consists of Aleksey Borisovich Serov and Aleksey Olegovich Ryzhov. Its former members include vocalist Anna Khokhlova, who left in September 2020, vocalist Nikolay Stagoranovich Timofeev, who left in July 2012, and rapper Oleg Yevgenyevich Zhukov, who died on February 9, 2002, of cancer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bi-2</span> Belarusian alternative rock band

Bi-2 is a Belarusian alternative rock band, formed in 1988 in Babruysk, Belarusian SSR. During their career, Bi-2 achieved international success in Eastern Europe.

Amatory is a Russian metal band from Saint Petersburg, formed in 1998 by Denis [DENVER] Zhivotovsky and Daniil [STEWART] Svetlov.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lyubov Uspenskaya</span> Russian singer and performer

Lyubov Zalmanovna Uspenskaya is a Soviet, Russian and American performer of Russian popular music, much of which is the so-called "urban romance" or Russian "chanson" style. Multiple winner of the "Chanson of the Year" award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lesya Yaroslavskaya</span> Russian singer (born 1981)

Olesya (Lesya) Vladimirovna Yaroslavskaya is a Russian pop singer, lead singer of Viktor Drobysh's girls band Тootsie (2004–2012), author and performer of her own songs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marteen (singer)</span> Russian singer (born 2003)

Mikhail Alekseevich (Misha) Smirnov, known professionally as Marteen and previously as Misha Smirnov, is a Russian singer and record producer.

Krovostok is a Russian abstract hip hop group formed in Moscow in 2003.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mgzavrebi</span> Georgian music band

MGZAVREBI is a Georgian group formed in 2006.

References

  1. "None". Archive.today. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved April 2, 2008.
  2. "Lumen - YouTube". YouTube . Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  3. "Official Live 2011 - YouTube". YouTube . Retrieved September 29, 2020.